On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:26 -0700, Jordan Peters wrote: > I'm going through the LFS 6.6 book with ubuntu 9.10 as the host and > I'm wondering if there are any tutorials anywhere to help if I want to > try creating a custom filesystem setup..... Like having /apps instead > of /bin, /users instead of /home, etc. > I'm aware I'll have to edit every makefile I come across, but I > figured this is an experiment already, might as well have more fun > with it and make it more "mine".
I think you'll find you're completely on your own with such a setup. Try, by all means, but when you run into difficulties, you'll struggle to find people who can help... For what it's work, having /users instead of /home wouldn't be a big deal - nothing actually cares where a user's home directory is. Nor is it quite a matter of editing every makefile - a lot should be possible just from passing --prefix, --bindir, etc to configure scripts. But expect a *lot* of trouble with the basic toolchain - gcc, glibc, binutils. Those three are the critical pieces that make everything else work - if your libraries aren't where the linker is looking for them, you're not going to get far until you work out how to change the linker. You'll also find problems from packages that simply assume you've followed the conventions - for example, scripts with #!/bin/sh hardcoded at the top. Simon.
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